Lit Hub Weekly: May 22 - 26, 2017

• Denis Johnson, one of the great writers of his generation, has died. | The Washington Post
• Soon you’ll be able to get your Margaret Atwood fix on Netflix and Hulu: an adaptation of Alias Grace is set to debut this fall. | The Huffington Post
• “The irony is that my catharsis was writing down that there is no catharsis.” Maggie Nelson on The Red Parts, 10 years later. | The Guardian
• A relatively traditional adaptation of a wildly unconventional novel: How Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick falls short as transgressive art. | Vogue
• On the genius of Chinua Achebe, who “enables us to hear the voices of Igboland in a new use of our own language.” | NYRB
• “To fully appreciate the novel’s longevity, artistry, and global resonance, it is essential to examine the unlikely confluence of factors that helped it overcome a difficult publishing climate and the author’s relative anonymity at the time.” How One Hundred Years of Solitude became a classic. | The Atlantic
• On a new biography of literary critic and New York Intellectual Diana Trilling, “a queenly Cold Warrior with a temperamental aversion to revolt.” | The New Yorker
• “Even in great historical fiction, I find myself getting lost in the intrigue of the era.” An interview with Amelia Gray. | Chicago Review of Books
• Using the master’s font to footnote the master text: On artist Jenifer Wightman’s quest to addend every known Gutenberg bible with a broadside “that reinterprets the story of Adam and Eve using evolutionary and contemporary science.” | Pacific Standard
• Richard Ford on Bruce Springsteen, stealing cars, and finding an audience. | VICE
• In which Tony Tulathimutte provides “subjective, unsolicited, and frankly sort of aggro advice” on pursuing a writing career. | Catapult
• “[Writing is] not like a compulsion like washing my hands until they bleed. It’s more like I give in to a desire to try to make sense of something.” An interview with Sarah Manguso. | The Riveter
• On the difficulty of representing Richard Nixon (“always already a readymade caricature”) in fiction. | Public Books
• “And still, they come, telling us/Through the ages not to fear.” A poem by Tracy K. Smith. | The Awl
• From In Cold Blood to The Devil in the White City, 10 of the best true crime books of all time. | Publishers Weekly
• “Whatever someone is doing when making art. . . I’m interested in the idea that to some extent they’re pursuing or exploring or resolving or exorcising their own fantasies.” An interview with Jen George. | Full Stop

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